{"id":35133,"date":"2011-03-03T05:52:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T10:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=35133"},"modified":"2011-03-03T05:52:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T10:52:13","slug":"neptune-and-the-north-node-manifesting-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/neptune-and-the-north-node-manifesting-belief\/","title":{"rendered":"Neptune and the North Node: Manifesting Belief"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Len Wallick<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Neptune starts our weekend off with a supportive aspect to the North Node, newly in Sagittarius. In astrology, Neptune has to do with the faucets of our mind. Sagittarius and the North Node have to do with ideals, beliefs, and their manifestation. Our astrology theme for the day coincides with what is going on in our lives, both personal and political. Belief and thought are assuming actual form before our eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The word belief is often used interchangeably with faith. On the whole, however, belief seems to be more assertive. In the common use, belief implies what we support — an opinion or conviction. Faith, on the other hand, is something we tend to conceive of as supporting or sustaining us, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n

Neptune seems quite resonant with the concept of belief. Named after the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Poseidon, lord of the oceans, ruler of the seas, there is potential for both nourishing abundance and mysterious menace. From the\u00a0depths of his kingdom, armed with a trident spear, he ruled not only the\u00a0salty waters\u00a0but all things associated with them, from fish to fog.\u00a0It is thus that the outermost of the\u00a0solar system’s gas giants has a wide degree of interpretations in astrology, bestowing an ambivalent, ambiguous quality that is often difficult to define. Sort of like belief.<\/p>\n

Neptune has been in Aquarius since November of 1998. That was the year that the overconfident Republican party actually lost ground in the mid-term elections and Newt Gingrich had to pull out because he came up short. During the decade after Neptune’s entry to Aquarius, it maintained an interesting, if often broad, energy pattern with Pluto in Sagittarius. This relationship coincided with an era when belief really did manifest itself in the real world, making history in the process. Pluto, the planet of compulsory transformation, in Sagittarius, the mutable, final fire sign of idealism, philosophy and belief coincided with a period when belief became fanatical. Believers not only advocated for but sought to impose their beliefs on others. The “at any cost” approach by spiritual and ethical value-activists at this time seemed to emphasize one of Neptune’s less savory attributes.<\/p>\n

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In astrology, nearly everything is double-edged. Every sign, house, planet and aspect has positive and negative potential. This polar flux manifests in the real world. Winning the lottery can be a blessing or a curse, as can losing your job. In practical experience, we often see a little of both.<\/p>\n

One of the negative potentials for Neptune is deception. The planet was discovered during a period in the United States when traveling medicine shows not only bilked farmers out of their seed money but also served as the genesis for the motion picture, petroleum and pharmaceutical industries which are now so dominant in the world economy. Talk about about belief manifesting in the real world. Who would have thought that snake oil and magic lanterns would have such a future.<\/p>\n

During the ten years Pluto in Sagittarius was bringing out the worst of Neptune in Aquarius, a different kind of snake oil was being sold in the United States. Gingrich and his cohorts ingeniously circumvented election law, exploited the constitutional separation of church and state and turned entire segments of organized religion into unregulated political action committees. The Republicans secured this cooperation by promising delivery on ‘values issues’ derived from belief, at the expense of women, gays and lesbians, science and knowledge. The political landscape changed for the long run and one party gained a huge tactical advantage over the other, using beliefs and values to spawn wedge issues.<\/p>\n

The support afforded out of belief did not, however, manifest as the believers had hoped. While the Republican Party gained wealth and hegemony, they did not, for the most part, deliver on the ‘faith- and values-based’ legislation for which people gave up their health care, access to quality education and collective bargaining rights. They were deceived. In return for their Pluto-zeal to transform American culture to their own ‘faith-based’ image, they received a handful of beans.<\/p>\n

That was then, this is now.\u00a0You will have noticed that the same people who gave away the farm are demanding the cow back. And they intend to keep the beans. Interesting how that correlates with a change of energy pattern. Pluto has moved from the ideology of Sagittarius and is taking care of business in Capricorn. Neptune is preparing to sample a new sign — Pisces, the sign of its home — for the first time since it was discovered 165 years ago.<\/p>\n

But Neptune is still in the late degrees of Aquarius for the time being and it has an entirely different arrangement of support with an entirely different presence in Sagittarius: the North Lunar Node. The nodes are not material objects, they are\u00a0locations. There are two of them, the North and South Nodes. They are the points where the Moon’s oblique orbit intersects the plane of Earth’s path around the Sun. They are perpetually opposed and they move backwards through the zodiac. In other words, when they enter a sign, they come in through the back door and count down through the degrees, taking nearly a year and a half to move through their respective signs. In western astrology there is also a traditional name for the North Node, dragon’s head.<\/p>\n

Whether it be head or North, the idea associated with this hypothetical point is moving forward, going up and leaving the past behind. Not only that, but acting with awareness. It is the concept of dharma — acting as if to create the future, which we all do. With this node now in Sagittarius, the conscious, creative action is informed by belief: belief in ourselves. Neptune is getting another chance. Instead of participating in a time of deceiving the masses, its last days in Aquarius\u00a0coincide with the masses waking up.<\/p>\n

What we believe influences our desires and values. Those in turn influence our choices. Our choices form our character. Our character creates our destiny. It’s almost magic, if you think about it. An intangible thought, closely held, believed, can ultimately result in a handful of beans, or a beanstalk. It can place us in the line of fire or on the picket line. It can make us slaves or masters of our own destiny. What do you believe? What are you going to do about it?<\/p>\n

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By Len Wallick Neptune starts our weekend off with a supportive aspect to the North Node, newly in Sagittarius. In astrology, Neptune has to do with the faucets of our mind. Sagittarius and the North Node have to do with ideals, beliefs, and their manifestation. Our astrology theme for the day coincides with what is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}